| Description | COUNCIL REGISTER, VOLUME 71, FOLIOS 118r - 119r
Council meeting, 5 October 1825
[Sederunt given]
Mr William Lumsden qualified himself as a member of Council by swearing and signing the usual oaths. (118r)
The Council elected Baillies John Young and Alexander Duthie and Messrs Alexander Brown and Alexander Duncan, all merchants and Burgesses of Guild, to be the Bridewell Commissioners for the two years ensuing to execute the powers granted by the Act of Parliament 42 GEO.III on behalf of the Council. (118r)
The Council resolved to fine any Council member absent at a meeting the sum of 1 shilling and any member fifteen minutes late or more the sum of 6 pence. (118r)
The Clerk produced the record of the office bearers' tacks for inspection and the Council ordered the following Acts of Council to be observed; the Act of Council of 26 September 1791 against the prolongation of the tack or a feu of the Mill of Gilcomston to the Brewery Company; the Act of Council of 25 June 1798 prohibiting the granting of money from the Funds of the Bridges of Dee and Don except to roads in the vicinity of the Town. The Council remitted to the magistrates to examine which tacks were close to expiry. (118r - 118v)
The Council set 26 October 1825 for the Visitation of the Public Schools and 31 October 1825 for the competition for bursaries at Marischal College. Thereafter the Council elected the following gentlemen to be Visitors of the Schools: the Provost, four Baillies, Dean of Guild, Treasurer, Master of Mortifications, Messrs Alexander Galen and William Lumsden, the four Town's Ministers and the Professors of the College. The Council also recommended to the magistrates the Act of Council of 31 October 1780 to secure a list of the vacant bursaries from the Managers of the Trades that they might be competed for at the same time. (118v - 119r)
James Grant, advocate in Aberdeen, was appointed to the office of Collector of Assessed Taxes within the Burgh for the year 1825 to 1826. (119r)
The Council admitted two Craftsmen. (119r) |